[ubuntu-za] SOLVED: Re: www.sterkinekor.com site (Flash) no longer loads in updated Ubuntu 11.10

[Tom Bamford]

On 9 March 2012 12:57, Chris Schoonbee <cmschoonbee at mweb.co.za> wrote:

>  I discovered /etc/alternatives and the update-alternatives command and
> realised that I was using gnash instead of Flash (although I don't remember
> doing anything in the last 8 days related to this).
>
> Anyway I used update-alternatives to point mozilla-flash-plugin to the
> Flash lib instead of gnash and Voila! It works again.  Interesting, it also
> fixed Chromium (I guess because it is mozilla-based?)
>
> For interest's sake I would still like to rule out an update to gnash
> (assuming I have been using it for more than 8 days) so I need to figure
> out how to find out a package's version install history.  Any hints on how
> I could find out when a particular package was installed?
>
>
Hi Chris

Well spotted. The logs in /var/log/apt/* and /var/log/alternatives.log
should give you some installation history.

Regards
Tom

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